Warning: Active Hurricane Season Ahead

5/24/2013 4:50PM

The 2013 hurricane season is shaping up to be "active" to "extremely active," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned Thursday. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter reports. (Photo: Getty Images)

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I ... the ... brace yourselves ... twenty thirteen hurricane forecasts is out ... there looks like it might be another rough here ... by Amgen Jelter MarketWatch ... the National Oceanic and atmospheric Administration NOAA ... issued its hurricane season forecast this week ... are predicting what they call an act of two extremely active season ... in the Atlantic in the care of it ... so what's that mean ... well after plugging in all or Meteorological measurements in their computer models ... nor is betting that there's a seventy percent chance we'll see thirteen to twenty named tropical storms this year ... to qualify for in him a tropical storms winds need to reach at least ... thirty nine miles an hour ... of those seven to eleven of those will strengthen to hurricanes with winds of seventy four mph or more ... and of those three to six will develop and what nor Kohl's major hurricanes ... which means storms with winds topping a hundred and eleven mph ... so how does this stack up against the norm we are well an average hurricane season consists of twelve named storms including six hurricanes and three major acts ... now before you go off and quarter windows up roughly the coast ... it's worth noting that no was forecast is not attempt to predict where this storm should make landfall ... and many of them never do ... spending all their energy while they're still say ... but hurricane season last from June first through the end of November so it's a long season ... and it's usually full of surprises ... even for the best neurologists ... so what names of the chosen for this years Stuart's first up ... and re followed by a beret ... if we get ... the full twenty storms no award is when my battle take this all the way to bail ... for those of you wondering of being becomes number twenty well ... this step the letters Q and you ...